Curriculum Vitae

Name: Andrea P. Buccino

E-mail:abuccino@iafe.uba.ar

Date of birth: February, 7^th, 1976.

Education:

• Postdoctoral fellow in the Instituto de Astronomía y Física del Espacio (Universidad de Buenos Aires and Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Tecnológicas). Subject: “Stellar activity in cool stars” since 2008 until present.

• Ph. D. in Physics of Universidad de Buenos Aires. Thesis title: “UV radiation in cool stars”. Advisor: Dr. Pablo J. D. Mauas. pablo@iafe.uba.ar. Qualification: Sobresaliente (Thesis defense: 2008 March, 17^th).

• Licenciada en Ciencias Fisicas (Equivalent to M. Sc. In Physics), Universidad de Buenos Aires. Advisor: Dr. Pablo J. D. Mauas. Qualification: 10/10. (Final exam: 2003, April 2^nd)

Publications:

• Metcalfe, T. S.; Buccino, A. P.; Brown, B. P.; Mathur, S.; Soderblom, D. R.; Henry, T. J.; Mauas, P. J. D.; Petrucci, R.; Hall, J. C.; Basu, S. (2013) “Magnetic Activity Cycles in the Exoplanet Host Star epsilon Eridani”, ApJL, 763, 26-31.

• Buccino, A.; Díaz, R. F.; Luoni, M. L.; Abrevaya, X. C. & Mauas, P.. (2011) “Long-term chromospheric activity in southern M dwarfs: Gl 229 A and Gl 752 A”, AJ, 141,34-41.

• Mauas, P.; Buccino, A. & Flamenco, E. (2011) “Long-term solar activity influences on South American rivers”, JASTP, 73, 377-382.

• Buccino, A. & Mauas, P. (2009) “Long-term chromospheric activity of non-eclipsing RS CVn-type stars ”, A&A, 495, 287.

• Mauas, P.; Flamenco E. & Buccino, A. (2008) “Solar Forcing of the Stream Flow of a Continental Scale South American River”, PRL, 483, 903.

• Buccino, A. & Mauas, P. (2008) “Mg II h+k emission lines as stellar activity indicators of main sequence F-K stars”, A&A, 483, 903.

• Buccino, A.; Lemarchand, G. & Mauas, P. (2007)“UV habitable zones around M stars”, Icarus, 192, 582.

• Buccino, A.; Lemarchand, G. & Mauas, P. (2006) “Ultraviolet radiation constraints around the circumstellar habitable zones”, Icarus, 183, 491.

Proceedings:

• Buccino A. P., Mauas P. J. D. (2009), “Possible chromospheric activity cycles in II Peg, UX Ari and V711 Tau”, COOL STARS, STELLAR SYSTEMS AND THE SUN: Proceedings of the 15th Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems and the Sun. AIP Conference Proceedings, 1094, 640.

• Buccino, A.; Lemarchand, G. & Mauas, P. (2008), “Multi-cycle chromospheric activity in II Peg and V711 Tau”, BAAA, 51, in press.

• Buccino, A.; Lemarchand, G. & Mauas, P. (2007),“Habitability around M stars: the action of flares”, BAAA, 50, 85.

• Buccino A. P., Mauas P. J. D. (2006) ,“Analysis of chromospheric activity in late type stars from UV observations ” , BAAA, 49, 136.

• Buccino, A.; Lemarchand, G. & Mauas, P. (2005),“UV radiation as biologic limit in the origin and development of life in extrasolar planets”, BAAA, 48, 19.

• Buccino, A.; Lemarchand, G. & Mauas, P. (2004), “UV Radiation in Different Stellar Systems”, in Ray Norris and Frank Stootman (eds.) Bioastronomy 2002: Life Amongst the Stars, Astronomical Society of the Pacific IAU Symposium Series, Vol. 213, p. 101.

• Buccino, A.; Lemarchand, G. & Mauas, P., (2002), “UV Radiation and Habitable Zones”, Origins of Life and Evolution of the Biosphere, 32, 542.

• Buccino A. P., Mauas P. J. D. ,(2002) ,“The Mg II lines as indicators of stellar activity” , RevMexAA (Serie de Conferencias), 14, 116.

• Buccino A. P., Mauas P. J. D. (2002), “La tasa de decaimiento del ciclo solar” ,BAAA , 45, 18B.

Schools:

• Tenth J.J. Giambiagi winter school: “Principles and Applications of Fluid Dynamics", supported by the Physics Division of Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales ofUniversidad de Buenos Aires, el Centro Latinoamericano de Física (CLAF), International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Tecnológicas (CONICET), la Agencia de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica and Fundación para el desarrollo tecnológico (FUDETEC), held inBuenos Aires, Argentina (2008).

• Advanced School on “Extrasolar Planets and Brown Dwarfs" supported by Universidad Catolica de Chile, Princeton University, European Southern Observatory, FONDAP Center for Astrophysics, held in Santiago, Chile (2003).

• "Indicators of stellar activity II & extrasolar planets" 26^thIAU-Unesco International School for Young Astronomers supported by International Astronomical Union, UNESCO, Universidad de la Plata, Complejo Astronomico El Leoncito y el Observatorio de La Plata, held in San Juan, Argentina. (Travel expenses and full accomodation paid by IAU)(2002)

• “Mg II lines as UV indicators of Stellar activity” 2^nd El Leoncito School of Solar Physics, organized by - Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik (MPE), Max-Planck-Institut für Aeronomie (MPAe), Instituto de Astronomía y Física del Espacio and Observatorio Astronómico Félix Aguilar (OAFA) as part of the National University of San Juan (UNSJ), held in San Juan, Argentina.(2001) (Travel expenses and full accomodation paid by MPE, MPAe and UNSJ) (2001)

Teaching Experience:

• Graduated assistant teacher in Physics, in UBA since August, 2003 until present.

• Assistant teacher in Physics, in UBA between March, 2002 and August , 2003.

• Assistant teacher in Math, in UBA since March, 1998 until present.

Idioms knowledge:

• English.

• French

Computing skills:

• Unix (Linux) enviroment

• Processing spectra whith programmes as IRAF and IDL.

• Programming languages: Fortran, C, MySql

Reasearch projects:

• Member of a Project UBACyT X138/2008 sponsorde by University of Buenos Aires. (2008)

• Member of Project 07-32408 sponsored by FONCYT (National Agency for the Promotion of Science and Technology) (2007)

• Member of a Project UBACyT X271/2004 sponsorde by University of Buenos Aires. (2004)

• Member of Project 03-12187 sponsored by FONCYT (National Agency for the Promotion of Science and Technology) (2004)

• Member of a Project PEI 6319/03 sponsored by CONICET (National Council of Scientific and Technical Research (2004).

• Member of a Project UBACyT U401/2002 sponsorde by University of Buenos Aires. (2002)